I'll give a personal account, hopefully you can pick some advice from it if you like.
I cope with Michael's passing in a variety of ways, first and foremost it's by being with my family ... my beautiful wife and our dog most of all. I'm still in a shock, maybe even denial, about the whole situation but I feel I done all the crying I had to do during the Memorial Service.
As well as being a Michael Jackson fan from a young age (7 or 8, I'm from the "Bad" generation), I became a fan of "heavier" music around the turn of the year 2000 and got into bands like Metallica. I still joke to this day that I am the only guy who could go into a mosh pit and moonwalk and sing every Michael Jackson lyric. I don't "conform" to any stereotype, I enjoy a lot of different music.
However, with the likes of Metallica, while you may not realise if you're not a fan, their music is highly charged and is good for letting out any angst you're feeling. I find it helps to listen to "angry" music during times of pain, because the music and lyrics take it away instead of you personally reacting or doing something silly.
I'm not a violent person, I've never fought in my life, but sometimes it's good to use the release of other, angrier, music when you're feeling in such a way ... like a lot of people are over Michael being "taken" from us.
That might not make sense, but to me as someone who "tunes into" music and listens to the meaning of the lyrics as well as appreciating a "good tune", it helps.
